Micah Yosef Berdichevsky James Adam (4 results)

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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. y. Syracuse. 2021. June 2021. Syracuse University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780815611363. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art. Edited and Translated by James Adam Redfield. 389 pages. paperback. keywords: Europe Russia Germany Literature Yiddish Translated Hebrew World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Josef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of Jewish literature and the New Testament. He was at once a peer of the Brothers Grimm, Sholem Aleichem, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains largely unknown to general readers. Originally published in the 1920s, his stories were dismissed by critics and viewed as out of step with the literary taste of his own time, but these satirical, sometimes fantastical portraits of the shtetl will speak to a contemporary audience. While humor and verbal dexterity enchant the reader and, to an extent, color the world of the Jewish small town, in From a Distant Relation we glimpse that world in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in the cast of memorable characters. Many of the stories feature strong female protagonists, while others shed light on the misogynistic culture of the shtetl. At the border of ethnography and literature, with a gritty underbelly and a deceptive naïvetE, Berdichevsky's stories explore the dynamics of gender and power in an intimate setting that resonates profoundly with contemporary Jewish life. inventory #46382.